Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Marriage

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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Auden, W. H.

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William